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The Warhammer Daemon Prince model is a great kit with lots of options that also offers terrific conversion possibilities. Here’s how I turned one to the look and power of Tzeentch.Some of you may recall my article about the Slaanesh Daemon Prince conversion I did a while back. I finished that project the weekend the […]

Warhammer 40,000 enthusiasts are waiting anxiously to see what the new 7th Edition of the game will bring. Games Workshop has already previewed some details of it. Here are a few of my own thoughts about it. I’ve been collecting Warhammer models for 25 years. Some of my collections are ridiculously large. I like modeling […]

Converting all plastic Chaos Space Marine Obliterators is creative fun and not too difficult. The Chaos model ranges from Games Workshop provide lots of great bits for kit bashing. With a little Green Stuff and some plastic card we have everything we need to make cool Obliterators. Some of the best models to start with […]

Checkout some tips for making dynamic and creative posing for Imperial Guard heavy weapon teams.Now that the Astra Militarum (AM), more commonly referred to as Imperial Guard (IG) have a shiny new Codex and models I thought it would be a good time to talk about getting the most out of a great older kit […]

The Lord Of Skulls is a spectacular Chaos model for Warhammer 40,000. It’s also a large complex model with many components. Here are some tips for breaking it down into sections to facilitate easy assembly and painting. I’ll also show you how to magnetize the left arm’s two different cannon muzzles to make them interchangeable. […]

The new Chaos Space Marine Helbrute from GW is not only terrific for its own sake, it’s also great for the extra conversion bits it provides.For those of us with multiple Dark Vengeance (DV) starter set Helbrutes the extra arms and heads allow us to convert multiple variants of that model. When I purchased the […]

Space Marines of disparate chapters often work together to defend the Imperium and nothing captures that spirit better than this classic model from Games Workshop.It depicts a Blood Angel, Dark Angel and Ultramarine raising an Imperium Aquila flag together over rough ground strewn with skulls. About 14 years ago Games Workshop made this Space Marine […]

Chaos Dreadnoughts, now also referred to as Helbrutes by Games Workshop, may be some of the coolest models made by GW and their Forge World subsidiary even if the rules at times haven’t made them too popular for gaming. I’ve been a fan of them for a long time and have several different types and […]

GW doesn’t sell a plastic Ork Big Mek just yet, but there’s no reason why you can’t make one fairly easily from bits.I actually started with a plastic push-fit Ork Boy for this conversion. A multi-part Ork Boy would work just as well. He has been heavily modified using bits from all manner of other […]

GW currently sells no Ork Skorcha kit, but if you’d like to have this hunk of burning love in your Ork horde it’s fairly simple to build one from existing Games Workshop plastic kits.A good place to start is the Ork Wartrakk kit. The current list price is $27.25 US so this won’t hurt your […]

The Chaos Warshrine model is pure chaos, it’s really a bunch of different models in one. Here’s how I tackled painting mine. The model consists of the two Chaos Mutants, the shrine they carry, the champion on top, the large icon pole, and numerous other detailed components like books, altars and braziers. As one might […]

It’s no secret that GW’s sales were down in 2013 from the previous year and that their stock price plummeted on January 16, 2014 when this was formally announced in their most recent financial report.As a GW customer of more than two decades I can’t help but have some thoughts and lamentations about it. I’ve […]

With the exciting new Tyranid release from GW it seemed like a good time to talk about adding variety to the Broodlord model. Currently there is only one Broodlord model and it has only one pose and no optional parts. How can you add some variety to the model if you’re building more than one? […]

A friend of mine built this impressive Imperial Guard display for last summer’s Games Workshop Armies On Parade contest.He entered it at Games Workshop Bowie, MD and needless to say it was the winner. I took some photos at the beginning, middle and end of the construction process. Here it is in all its glory. […]

Painting skin tones can be fast, easy and fun.Some hobbyists fear the task, so I thought I’d do an article to help show how fast and simple it can be no matter what skin tone you’re trying to create. When I began working on my Ogres recently I created a simple three-step process for painting […]

Warhammer Ogres are a fun model range, but their all Finecast characters start at $40 US each.Converting characters from the plastic box sets is not only fun, it will save you a lot of money. Here’s how I converted mine. First, the Ogre Bulls box set of six plastic Ogres is your friend here. Six […]

There has been much Internet chatter over the past year about Games Workshop discontinuing Finecast and there is foreshadowing in their new releases and store stock that it’s true.Based on my many experiences with Finecast, I will welcome this change if it is true. Here’s why. To be blunt, Finecast overall is not a good […]

If you have a large modeling backlog and like to get a lot of models painted in a short time, then quick batch painting methods are a tool for conquering that pile of kits. Here’s how I painted forty models in about fifteen hours.Keep in mind these were never intended to be extreme high quality […]